[fancypost borderwidth=0px; width: 360px][justify][size=7pt]hey. i know this usually doesn't go here, but be careful. i'm a florida kid. you know that storm that went through and is heading (if not already hitting) toward you guys? yeah. i got it first. let me tell you. never has my city been on the national weather channel. i'm in pensacola. guys. guys. be very careful. my play director dragged us out (none of us were assuming it would be that bad) besides the flash flood advisory and tornado watch. i was supposed to get home at 2145ish. i didn't get home until quarter to midnight, just after the scare of my life.
any streets that are lower or have even the slightest dip? flooded. you go to low into the water and get your sparkplugs wet, you'll get stuck there until god know's how long waiting for them to dry out. three people drowned because they didn't get out of their car and the water got up over the hoods of their cars, trapping them in where they couldn't open the doors while the water got in through cracks. my mom and i almost stalled out at least five times and it took almost two hours to get home. we got over 27 inches of rain, and that isn't even counting what was in the storm drains, which by the way were so flooded out that water wasn't even going in anymore. we were at the last speedbump when water got my mom's sparkplugs wet and stalled out our car. fifteen minutes later the car started up again and we got over the speedbump. we knew that our street was high up and that if we just got past that speedbump we'd be okay.
guys, never since that house was bought in '91 has there been so much water.
we got past the speedbump and stalled out in water that got quickly deeper. the storm drain we were stalled by was gushing water, and it was up to our doors. after five minutes, water was getting in the back door. long story short, i got out and tried to get to my house, but i couldn't because of the lightning and the fact that some of the yards were completely flooded out. long story shortish, my mom thought i'd fallen into the water because she couldn't find me. she ended up finding me, and today the water's gone on our road, but it was one of the most terrifying things in my life. all the water on my street was up to the middle of my thighs.
please please please be careful. god, be careful.